The Roda Post
Market22 Jan 2029
Stijn Meijer agrees terms with Cambuur
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Roda people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market22 Jan 2029
Mokrane Bentoumi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Roda can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
Jarvy Jans says Roda went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Latrell Aken turns down Roda
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Rachid Kouda in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Roda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Oliver Olsen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Roda rebuffed over Rayan Atikallah
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Feyenoord have kept their man, and Roda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match20 Jan 2029
Roda come up short against Jong Ajax
Jong Ajax left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Appearance number 200 for Jay Kruiver
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
In brief
- Squad Daniel Lajud wants to go home
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Niklas Schmidt knocks on the manager's door